Alcohol Historian on Instagram: "The gin and tonic, life blood of this nation, was born not because gin and tonic tasted delicious together (both liquids have changed dramatically since their inception) but because tonic tasted truly grim. Tonic was created to try and disguise the taste of quinine. An alkaloid extracted from the bark of the Cincona tree of South America, quinine is a natural ant-malarial prophylactic. C’est-à-dire, that it stopped the consumer catching malaria, it also helped al